Education of South Africa

Adult literacy rate in South Africa is 94.3%. Male literacy is 95.5%. Female literacy is 93.1%. Therefore, male literacy and female literacy differ by 2.4%. Government expenditure on education is 5.4% of GDP. The education index of South Africa is 0.695 - formal education levels in the country are average, but most of the population has a secondary school education at least; higher education is possible and not uncommon. People in South Africa speak the 'Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Northern Sotho, Venda, Tsonga, Swati, and Ndebele languages.

English language

In South Africa, around 0% of the population or 16,424,417 people speak English. 4,930,510 of South Africa's population call English their first language. 11,493,907 of South Africa's population use English as either foreign or second language.